Hello and welcome to
a full edition of ports wrap finally here and I can finally say or
ask you Are you ready for some football because we are I am Mike Well we do
or one of the co-host of sports rep along with my friend and co-host Frank Wally
Mikey and we have
a special guest on today who is Dave Grohl flow from the group the famous Facebook
group the group that's always been and always has been supporting of Tom Brady ever
since the fleet gate this is they follow from defenders of the wall and I think one
good way to started out with Dave since it's so obvious to people that you are
wearing number ten Jimmy billows Jersey who now is starting in place
of our hero I would say the icon of the Patriots Tom Brady.
To be grapple Why are you going to Between Well I'll tell you Well this is my lucky
shirt so I wore this to Super Bowl forty nine OK and my brother and I bought these
jerseys because our name is Garavel low and it sounds
a lot like Gropple oh so soon as I signed I'm OK we rushed out and bought the
shirts but we both wore them at the Super Bowl there's pictures of us which I'll
show you guys but there's pictures of us at the Super Bowl in our jerseys and we
tweeted to Jim Agar up alone he liked it and so this is from forevermore going to
be my lucky shirt so I'll probably wear this to my next job interview that I go on
but OK went to the Super Bowl and the. After the Indy
game going to get one quick question Was he
a rookie at that point yeah it was OK good so we played that game against India and
you remember it ended after midnight Yes and there's evidently there's
a lottery right after the game's over and they pick however many thousand season
ticket holders to go to the Super Bowl to have the opportunity to buy tickets to
the Super Bowl so he texted me and he said we're going to Arizona haha oh wow and I
said Yeah I know I thought we won the game we're going to Arizona he said no no
we're going to Arizona Yeah and it's a big goal of the Super Bowl it's
a big deal because especially when it's there because you got to fly across the
country and find we stayed with friends Luckily the hotel rooms were outrageous too
but you make all the arrangements and it's always in the back of your mind that
what if I go all that way spent all that money and we don't win and we're up
against
a team who you saw what they did to Peyton Manning the year before that's right he
didn't score
a point until the third quarter was over Castro and he started out horribly to us
for
a year and Omaha you know what Omaha means. If that's all mom to breast the me snap
the ball over my head. So so I I was
ambivalent about the whole things I didn't really know if I wanted to go but I said
this is
a Super Bowl it's the Patriots I have to go we were in what's called the Ring of
Honor which is there's an a lower bowl and up of all this is
a huge stadium there's
a ring in between the bowls that's where the Patriots season ticket section was and
we were right above the Patriots end zone so we were looking down on the Malcolm
Butler play when it happened. And that was your light heart in your mouth right was
company because we saw the of on curse thing and from where we were it looked
incomplete everybody thought it was incomplete because it went off both hands and
we didn't think there was any way and then all of
a sudden we see them spot the ball there and we said not again. Because I know how
many times can the same thing happen right right and then when he went back to
throw you could see from where we were you saw the whole thing unfold he went back
he threw it and then you see him catch it and there's obviously no one ounce or
anything so you're just watching it home so you see him running the other way and
it's like holy crap you intercepted it well and this was so I thought so was the
crowd going like totally hushed and then all of
a sudden oh yeah we were morons we're going berserk and we were all standing up and
just like you say your heart's in your mouth because you figure we lost right
because they had however many seconds left and Belichick wasn't calling
a timeout and the time just ticking and ticking and ticking and you're saying why
isn't he calling
a timeout which he he knew. That was actually strategy on his part really as I'm
a liberal because if you call
a timeout they're going to regroup and come up with something but he made him call
a play that's right and sure enough he goes to throw it so all I could think about
was I got to get back on that bus because I we didn't park at the stadium we parked
a couple towns over and then
a bus takes you know this bus was all Seahawks fans. There were two guys two
guys right in front of us OH MY GOD THE from Canon like hey want to be eerie and so
we're having
a good old time with these two other people and then it was me my brother these two
and then all the rest of the busses Sea Hawks Sea Hawks all way down and they're
all making jokes about football and is going to be air in the footballs and all
this kind of thing and when he caught that ball and they were on the one I said the
only thing I can think is I don't want to get back on that bus I might walk the
thirty miles to my car just not to be on the bus with these guys and then he throws
the pick there's three thousand Patriots fans we couldn't hear anything in you
member they threw
a flag for celebration and all of this and Goodell came out there were so many boos
when Goodell was speaking you couldn't hear
a word that he said in our section or couldn't hear anything there were two Seattle
fans in the whole section so I I assume that because it was all season ticket
holders I assume
a couple of people sold their tickets right now because there were guys outside the
stadium who were silent tickets for ten thousand dollars each Oh my God And there
was one guy the girl cuts my hair her brother had two tickets he was
trying to sell him for ten thousand dollars and he never did sell them and he ended
up just keeping I don't know if he went in or whatever but ten thousand dollars is
what they were one freakin game for one ticket to a game what
a terrible game. Well Super Bowl I mean what if it's forty five to seventy one if
not I mean headed every thing like that right right but there's
a bunch of people thousands of people just hugging and cheering and in total
ecstasy and then there's two guys doing this because they were Seattle fans oh my
God So did you end up going back on the bus we couldn't wait to get on the bus we
got on the bus and it's like good credit. Yeah. It was
a good ride back so we didn't mind that part of it also Anyway we wore our our
grappler jerseys and so I'll be wearing it for quite
a while now and what you to take
a second of to and let the folks at home know how you got involved in defenders of
the wall and how you got so involved in this whole process so I started out on
Twitter and I when the whole thing happened with the Wells Report. I
downloaded it because I'm not what you call
a homer I want to know what my team is up to right and I'm actually
a Florida state guy graduated from Florida State are we talking too fast for you or
no no no no I know you from having magna cum laude from Florida if they do it is
that it is all of
a sudden I think they all knew it soon as I went down there and started talking
they're like you're
a Yankee Yeah I all I had to do is say two sentences. Yeah and they they
immediately knew I was not from there OK but but. When this whole thing happened
with James Winston and what he was accused of down there there are some people who
just say well he's
a seminar always from Florida State whatever he does is fine all right I went and
downloaded all the police reports the lab reports all the interviews I read
everything made my own mind up about what happened I'm not I don't blindly support
anybody so I downloaded these that we don't either you know and that's the that's
the way it ought to be right so I downloaded the Wells Report started reading it
and started taking notes on it I never had any intention of writing anything but I
was writing notes for my own. My own knowledge and just so I could understand it
better all this and I find a mistake I'm on page nine I found
a major mistake kept reading through it the whole thing was
a bunch of mistakes one after another so I wrote this long article and I just went
on Twitter because I you know I engage
a little bit on Twitter I tangled with people argue with them
a little bit so I started posting links to my article on Twitter and
got a bunch of people following me after that and then made
a bunch of friends Sheila yeah yeah then guess who we know and
a bunch of other people and then through them I found defenders of the wall and
made a lot of a lot of friends and
a lot of contacts so ever since then I've been pretty active in the community I
mean your article was right on about I mean you dug deep and to into the scientific
aspects of how the balls. Weren't really deflated at all they were deflated and
there's
a perfectly scientific explanation for everything in that report and it's just
built on a there's
a lot of errors in it errors in logic here and an errors in omission where they
just simply don't talk about things and yeah I think I was telling you when we were
at page
a place that time where the teams gauges the gauges that both the teams brought to
the games right they actually say in the Wells Report. The gauges have not been
located since the day of the game which just blew my mind because they hired Ted
Wells five days after the game and he claimed that he couldn't find either teams
gauge right and they didn't even know which gauge to actually rush through the
finity of arguments on and they just one arbitrarily and they built
a case here they built
a case around the one they wanted to give me but just the fact that you can't find
either team's pressure gauge five days after the game that smells bad right and
there's just
a bunch of things like that and so yeah I really I delved into the whole thing and
people will say to me Well you're
a Patriots fan so obviously you're going to say that well the difference between me
and
a lot of other people is I sat down and read that whole thing write two hundred forty
three pages and you can't you can't sit down and read it like
a book now there's certain parts of us pause and go out and come back and you have
to go take
a walk yes and come back that's where the title Not only that you have to read the
footnotes because
a lot of good information is really in the footnote on the spray bottle that you do
you remember the spray bottle thing I talked about because it was pouring down rain
that day right so for that one so they tested the difference between
a wet football and a dry one the way they simulated the rain they took
a spray bottle and handheld spray bottle and spray the ball and then wiped it off.
That's a and that's a look in
a footnote so if you're not reading the footnote you're not seeing
a lot of the stuff like that I just put that on Twitter one day I said I said.
Exponent used
a spray bottle nobody believed me they said yeah that be funny if it was really
true it was really true oh yeah you know we've we've covered
a lot of the report and flaky and so forth we're talking about sugar AAPL Oh sure
here let's talk about the here and now and what's going to happen going forward
with your boy Jimmy threw at the helm for the next four games you know what do you
think what's going to happen my friend and what do you think we already had our
opinions but what do you think I like his skills and I was telling you guys before
he's
a different kind of quarterback you know the quarterback we have now so he's less
experience but the defenses are less experienced it almost reminds me of a of
a pitcher in baseball when they first bring
a pitcher up an emo is everybody down because they don't know how he pitches yet
it's the same thing with Jimmy there's no game film there's almost literally no
game film and Jimmy Gropple Oh so you cannot build your defense around Tom Brady
game film anymore you're not playing Tom Brady right so he's got that advantage now
on the other side we're going to fly him across the country and put him in front of
a huge stadium of hostile fans that's right on international T.V.
National national T.V.
And
a fierce pass rush and they're one of the puts more than any team in the league and
they have
a great secondary. So. You know what my concern is that he could panic
and he could throw me I hope that they get off to
a good start at least the first time they had the ball the first downs go get down
there hopefully get some points out of it yeah but not throw an interception not
panic. If he does have to hit the ball in the ball or throw it away that's my
concern and I think I've heard from
a lot of other people is that he makes the right decisions and under duress Yeah I
think no matter what happens once he gets Arizona under his belt even if he loses
Yeah he's now played in one of the most hostile environments so I use Me I think
he's got
a good core of skills so I'm really hoping for three and one or maybe two and
two if it has to be do it do if you can just tread water and then hand the baton
off to Brady at two into or three and one we're going to win the east yeah I would
say so too I mean you have to have because if you look at it if you look at the
schedule and I mean there are some tough games coming up I mean besides the you
know if they got to play the Steelers at the at Pittsburgh now that could be
a tough game I think that could be
a tension loss right they've got two. So if they let's say me they lose two games
that's three losses and before the break I don't necessarily see them losing
anybody else here. Really you know you've got to remember too the bills or the
bills that's another thing the dolphins are the dolphins Yeah the Jets won ten
games last year and they always no matter where the Jets play the Patriots the Jets
always give the Patriots are to attend
a toy and that goes back to man Jeanie you know even before man Jeannie when you
had to get Parcells there and matter who it seems like the matter who the coach is
no matter who the quarterback is they always seem to give the Patriots that and
dolphins give them
a hard time too and it's almost like Florida where you know the Red Sox and the you
know Florida Tampa Bay for some reason always gives the Red Sox fits they seem to
catch them at the right time and they'll give them when they're not supposed to and
will you know when when they're not supposed to and I think the Patriots are like
that you know especially when they're in Miami yet they have
a hard time with that and I think it depends where it is too because you know the
temperature has
a lot to do with the conditions and the same thing when they're going to play
Denver that could be another potential losing game because they never seem to play
well in Denver doesn't matter it's not easy going up there and you know it's I mean
I know and I mean you know in here my brother lives used to live in that Colorado
so I've been visited and they're taking it actually sometimes the first time I went
I actually got air sickness you actually do have to get used to that to the
difference yeah in the air Yeah it's no joke it's no joke and so I we went to
down to Miami the Patriots did and I think it was two seasons ago in the summer Yes
Yes And you remember we just they looked all right and then in the first half and
then they just collapse in the second half and you could just see it right there
that he left well they were talking about that in the schedule to on thing was
saying that the. The Patriots are playing in cold weather and
warm weather or you know it different times or my could well they're going the it
seems. When Miami's come in here actually Miami is going to be coming here you know
and the first home games right so it's going to probably be warm here but then
we're going down there the last game of the year January first OK All right you
know New Year's using it with them confuse it with
a little Sox and going down Arizona to buy that now that we're talking about that
that's going to be hotter Yeah we don't even considering the heat out there. I mean
it was it was warm in February Oh yeah when we were there so I don't know what it's
going to be like in September in Arizona I was out there one time and you know I
remember it was on an Easter Sunday the last Sunday in March I believe and it was
eighty five degrees at eight o'clock in the morning yeah yeah I think it's hot I
think we had
a friend in Phoenix and he said it's been like one hundred degrees most of the
summer when I was in really high but it's no humidity it's just all B.S.
So humidity hundred degrees is one hundred degrees yeah exactly you're in an oven
Yes and when I was in Florida when I was a college there's
a rule at Florida State you have to take six weeks in the summer to graduate so I
took my six weeks my junior year oh my goodness I was in Tallahassee in June Oh my
God it was one hundred degrees every day by nine am Wow in those dorms through what
I would that's when you have time I was in an apartment that had area in it luckily
just about everywhere has air conditioning down there just you just have to but it
was brutal you know the thing about the schedule though even people even I mean
I've heard this and I believe that there's always
a fluke gave that they lose that they should lose you know every year yeah you know
like I mean used to I still see them winning the East but what do you think the
records going to be like
a Bush people say I don't think twelve in four I see like eleven in five which
could be and should be enough you know it's going to depend on is two things one is
gropple Oh and the other one is the other one is injuries. What's true and it's
already we've already gotten bitten
a little bit because you've got Vollmer out Dion Lewis is coming he's not out but
he's come he's coming he won't be back until B.B.
Say they say as late as we can look at neck of itch now and God I'm game for game
solicitations you know that the whole drug policy is another thing because if
a guy is doing steroids that's one thing but he bought something off the shelf at
a GNC and didn't know that one of the says in it was wasn't on the gradient label
but you know but that part of that is I was thinking though they should have every
single player should have
a list of what's acceptable and what's not acceptable and right they had that they
should they should have for every single product so that no one is surprised Well
not only that but whatever it is they found in his bloodstream. Why don't they just
go and take what he bought and do an analysis of it. If they can analyze Yeah
footballs for five million bucks why can't they take
a jar of powder and test it because it makes sense that's why you think oh yeah I
forgot it makes sense you know I forgot to instruct you to write
a bill for two reasonable logical Larry going to that doesn't apply to Goodell and
his rules but you know what I did here that actually did make sense is that the
N.F.L. Is now looking into medical marijuana use at least they they called
a meeting with
a guy named Eugene Monroe Yeah who who does studies on medical marijuana in the
N.F.L. Actually called
a meeting with him to talk to him more about the about relieving pain yeah we
thought we were in stress to stress Well I mean these guys at that the vast
majority of them seem to be on anyway I mean I think this can be abused in the and
again I usually be abused though Ricky Williams so many kind ways that you can
consume marijuana now with brownies liquid you name it you know Plus it's hard
to see on the it's not the segment I was when I do work you know it's everything oh
what's so laced in the way they're growing it now it's so chemical chemically
altered over really all yeah stronger than ever Oh you mean you know I mean I am
absolutely not
a marijuana smoker but I grew up in the sixties and seventies when I was little yes
did you Mike we lived through that I don't ration Well I was
a me but we live how did you not be
a great I believe in the warrior because you know it's right yeah I was around
there yes but I you know but my point is that yeah I go to
a lot of music places and a lot of clubs I'm very involved in the music scene and
a lot of time with this music there's marijuana right and I don't know how many
places that I've been to inside and out where people are smoking marijuana and on
this to God It smells like
a dead skunk. Yeah the skunk and that's another thing like there was back in our
day and you know you have the different blends and everything but now it is
atrocious and I and I talked to people about that
a second how can you smoke that stuff and I did as well yes not the same back in
the day because they they lace it and they put all these chemicals and everything
into so yeah I guess that's what I did I don't I guess I could do that but I mean
for so Ricky Williams who ought to know yeah he you know he was the king of
marriage three estimated it was forty percent of the players use it for pain relief
and stress relief of a use it anyway now you because what happens now is not
a banned substance then well it is but there is almost like an implicit they test
that what they do is they test every N.F.L.
Player between April and August for marijuana amphetamines and
number of other drugs that they test you for if you test negative you're all set
for the season for the year was real and they test you again the next year so once
you pass that test in April you could smoke every day. So not so it's almost like
the N.F.L. Saying just. Don't do it in the off season and then have
a good time now it's part of the players' bargaining bargaining committee is it
kind of weird because I think that could have an effect on their performance to
make it couldn't it literally and hacky sack it couldn't Well I mean you know.
Because you look at the ball on the spot you. Can catch this was that guy's got
some freedom. No but I mean it could maybe could it could affect your reaction time
because I would think so I don't know I think it would affect them negatively
negatively Absolutely yeah so it they definitely know why is it
a banned substance there is exactly they should know I know the N.F.L.
Doesn't want to get involved in banned substances because it's only legal in twenty
three states for medical medical purposes so I understand they don't want people
doing it but it shouldn't be a suspension it should be
a fine or maybe one game but it's marijuana it's not helping you know helping out
in the field and it's going to become even more common in society in general
because I mean there's the trying to pass other states are trying to pass laws to
get them to get it done through as soon as it comes up here it's passing it's on
about now yes it's it's going to pass it is going to pass why shouldn't it it's why
it's much better than alcohol I know you say and it's yeah but it is genetically
modified it affects you as a driver it definitely affects you as
a driver so I don't think it's great to have that and stronger than ever the T.H.C.
Is stronger than ever you know yeah I mean it is there's
a good studies on it as I've been reading about I there was
a seminar at my daughter's high school where they talked about because people say
well it doesn't affect drivers and she showed pictures of car accidents that happen
with people who are stoned Yes and so on so yeah I mean definitely you shouldn't be
able to drive
a car operate machinery if you're going to go they go even if it passes so the
illegal to drive Oh yeah. Should be illegal but how are they going to well that's
another issue but test me for but if that's going to be the case and you would only
go ahead which is good enough for. The Reds and the page you would almost want some
of these football players especially your opposition to smoke marijuana yes but I
have
a negative effect on the sense of their hotel Exactly there are you know your husband
is
a delivery Peterson and and that you and those guys which Von Miller had some marijuana
before the A.F.C.
Championship game last year that would have helped ice and he was and he was into
that supposedly wasn't he I thought he was banned for that or I don't know at all
for that but I think I don't know I mean
a lot of these guys do it because they after an N.F.L.
Football game some of these guys they can't even walk that's true I guess it does
help them. Go logically Yeah you know and just people with chronic pain and people
who are on chemotherapy and almost anything it has good benefits as well I'm glad
the N.F.L.
Is at least looking into it I don't know how quick that's going to move but. I
think they should maybe they should give Carson Palmer
a blunt before the game. It was all about Carson Palmer and so we don't have much
time that we're all talking about this but how do you think that the Patriots could
influence their defense I mean our defense and she came up because that was one big
key that Seattle did last year you know and then after the game yeah the thing
about him he got rattled. And so if if they can have if they can put any kind of
pressure on him knock him off
a spot he ate Aaron Rodgers Yeah so I think that would help us too and that's one
thing that I think we can do that I think I think these the for the group of guys
that they have now they can do it and I was really excited about Terrence Knight
And but I know they released him right now I don't know how much is left in the
tank or if he didn't get along with the other guys or whatever but right I was
really hoping that he'd be there because he was
a good pass rusher I want them to but these guys that we have now they're well
coached and they're experienced Ninkovich it hurts
a little bit that he's not there but I think we can we can put pressure on him as
specially if we get
a lead you know he starts throwing Well that's it that's what we need to do because
he panics it seems when he's behind and I'm not I think will keep the game close
and that's the game that stands out to me you're playing
a big opponent in week one away that's right but the defense will keep it close
will be well coached and I think we'll be in it every addiction for score do it'll
be like like twenty eight twenty four really like that where you think Frank I
don't think that much I was going to ask
a quick question but you kind of answered I was going to say what's going to win
the game is the defense going to win the game and or that often is going to win
this game you know it'll be it'll be like the old Baltimore Ravens used to be where
you know the all the quarterback had to do was get out there not lose right I think
it'll be like that as long as he doesn't try to do too much doesn't make any
mistakes I don't think there's going to be
a lot of points all go warm I'll go. No more than twenty one I mean I'll go
twenty one high I'll go like twenty one seventeen Patriots one hundred seventy
pages I go twenty one seventeen twenty four twenty one Patriots Yeah I don't see
a lot of it's going to happen but I don't see
a lot of points but we're running out of time here as always it's amazing so. At
the thank you energy pizzas good good it's great you know just well I mean you had
a couple good slices taking pineapple for the first time in my life ever OK
everybody at home is going to write about one of the Yeah I was I was in one of the
favorites so going to say you wanted to tell him that we in sports rap told you to
go there and when you do duck. Go for my great door Frank Walsh and our guest
Dave Ruff low we will see you down the road.